Sadly yes. Here we are continuously struggling for the future where men and women can walk side by side. But the worst contrust of this idea is women herself. Our women society either truly are supporter of rigid patriarchy or indirectly upholding the sense of patriarchy, even more than male society himself.
You ask how?
It’s seen in our mother, women to justify the gender roles much more than male of the family. It’s more from the women who are preaching generation by generation that how a girl has to be homely, should practice all household chores, play less, be silent and never question decision of men
Despite of being a woman herherself, they stigmatized women’s dreams as ‘selfish desires’, judge women’s clothing. Mother-in-law is never concerned about other female of her family. Thus maternal health is lacking.
And obviously we are not forgetting the neighborhood aunties, always watching our actions, judging about going outside, with a guy, wearing shorts. Ya, we all have at least one of that kind.
Even not only aunties, our modern teenage girl society is also following the hierarchy somehow. Body shaming, skin colour shaming, acquiscent dressing sense are just another form of upholding patriarchal norms that how men want to be women the most perfect show piece.
Nonetheless. It’s our whole women society who are telling their girls how much inferior and weak they’re, how they should always endure the pain, how they need to manage in their marriage life. Today women are even afraid to consult and report about harassment. Being weak is not only the cause of course. Before each and every action, we have to think about what will people say or much specifically how other women’ll react if it’s consulted. Because we ourselves stigmatized this thought that she is always cause, always needs to be blamed.
It’s often believed that women are the main spike in the way of women empowerment and sadly it’s true indeed. Women don’t prioritized their unity, they don’t support each other. That’s the main cause we are still lacking in.
Though it’s good to say that this age is better than 19th or 18th century as women really come over to support atleast. But that social norms which are conceived among us unconsciously, we need to constraint that. There should be more female to female understanding and ww should uplift another girls to go forward.